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Fantasy: August 02, 2023 Issue [#12096]




 This week: Observing the World Around You
  Edited by: Prosperous Snow celebrating Author IconMail Icon
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3. Letter from the Editor
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Letter from the editor

Someone reviewed a poem I wrote a few years ago, and when I read it I had to smile. I had forgotten about "A Trick of the Morning Light" Open in new Window., but when I reread it, I remembered the tree. It was a stone pine tree that looked like an Ent-wife at certain times of the year. When I finished reading the poem, I remembered "Scarlet Stone" Open in new Window..

Both the poem and the story were inspired by items I found in the front yard of a house I used to live in. The rock and the tree were just ordinary things in my personal surroundings. There was nothing special about them until made one of them an ent-wife and the other a spy from another planet.

Are there things in your home or yard that could be used as the protagonist or the antagonist of a story or poem? Try this exercise: Get up, walk through your house, go outside and walk through your yard or down the street. Take notice of anything--ordinary or unusual--that catches your attention. Write a description of it, so that you can incorporate it into a science fiction or fantasy story or poem.

Have you ever looked at an item--such as a rock, tree, or some ordinary utensil--in your immediate surroundings and transformed it into a character in a story? If so, please submit it to the fantasy newsletter. If not, try the exercise in the previous paragraph, write a story about it, and submit it to the newsletter. Deadline: September 18, 2023. Content rating: 18+.


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 In an alien zoo Writers’ Cramp  Open in new Window. (E)
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At first, I'd only hear the wind--or the dog.
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 the shifter Open in new Window. (E)
a story of a shape shifter in a modern society
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 The Clever Dragon of Neverbrook Open in new Window. (E)
A brand new fractured fairy tale
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I don't understand why no one noticed this happening for so long.
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A collection of various short stories and poetry.
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Alien furries have come to Earth to take you with them. What adventures await you?
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NaNoNette Author Icon writes: I have used mercenaries in my Fantasy stories, but I didn't see the need to research them. I understand that the official definition of mercenary is that of an illegitimate combatant who go after civilians for money. In movies, mercenaries are often not depicted as part of a group, but instead as extra-judicial operatives who get things done. Current examples on Netflix are The Gray Man  Open in new Window. and the two Extraction  Open in new Window. movies. Those are closer to the mercenaries that I write.

BIG BAD WOLF is Howling Author Icon writes: Sometimes a Merc is a Hero, sometimes they are a Villain, and sometimes, it's a question of who is writing the check.


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